Viva Puerto Rico

A lil Dedication to my fellow Taino Ricans
  
I'm the history of the word    
Taino Indian verb  
Sending smoke signals and courier birds  
my slang carried southerners  
to the free land    
between lines and verses    
   
learned how to read & write from  
Writing life back into our leaders in hearses    
Columbus brought Measles & Curses    
Tried to take our cotton and gold    
How the story is told    
But we are too proud to be silent  
   
Viva Puerto Rico!!!  
   
Many say we're just a lazy tongue  
But you just complicated the songs we sung  
Coz "laaaa"is a song and "the" just can't sing    
Derived from Arawak    
survived in Latin swing  
   
my people bring...  
culture to land and sky    
Broke bread and beat drums    
To Zemi Gods til we amplified    
Played poems off maracas dressed in sea shells    
while medicine men speak spells    
   
We are Cultivated Caribbeans with flowers in our hair and pride in our hearts and will always be the Taino Tribe.    
   
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